The Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale : Further validation with adolescent psychiatric inpatients

摘要: The present study was designed to examine the construct validity and psychometric properties of Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. This new scale has four subscales: attraction life, repulsion by death, death. Confirmatory factor analysis items provided support for fit 28-item, four-factor model. Results logistic regression analyses revealed that high scores on life death subscales were useful assessing risk suicide attempts. hierarchical showed low subscale contributed prediction probability scale. We also examined gender differences psychological correlates each subscale.